ABSTRACT
As the history subject manager, you will need to encourage staff to plan and teach history to as high a standard as possible. Bearing in mind that teachers have different methods for doing this, this chapter gives you the opportunity to look at a model approach to planning and teaching history. You may find this useful both from the standpoint of evaluating your own methodology and that of the teachers with whom you work. The aim of this chapter is to encourage you to consider the method of history planning throughout your school. We are well aware that most schools have in place a planning structure of some form, and some people may feel it unwise to tamper with a set structure, but as you will see from the chapter, most of the changes that you would need to make, in order not only to ensure documentation exists of your school’s coverage of the history National Curriculum, but to make the task of establishing an accurate scheme of work much easier, are minimal. Our aim is not to increase the amount of paperwork involved, but work towards decreasing it.
